The Metamorphosis And Other Stories

Macmillan Children's Books

A brilliant collection of stories based on the heroes and villains of Norse Mythology, hand-picked and collected together in this gorgeous gift treasury.Delve into the world of gods, giants and monsters, as you sit atop Air Throne and survey the kingdom of Asgard. With magnificent colour and line-work illustrations from artists such as Charles Brock, Arthur Rackham and Helen St...

L. Frank Baum / Anna Bond

A wonderful, wicked new deluxe hardcover edition of The Wizard of Oz with cover illustrations by Rifle Paper Co.'s Anna Bond!Dorothy thinks she is lost forever when a terrifying tornado crashes through Kansas and whisks her and her dog, Toto, far away to the magical land of Oz. To get home Dorothy must follow the yellow brick road to Emerald City and find the wonderfully myster...

Hemingway, Ernest

Hemingway's beloved novel of doomed love during wartime, now available for the first time from Penguin Classics, with a new foreword by Abraham Verghese, the multimillion-copy bestselling author of The Covenant of Water and Cutting for StoneOne of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 YearsA Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, with flaps and deckle-edged paperA Fare...

Robert Louis Stevenson

What a study in contrasts is the friendship between Henry Jekyll and his boon companion, Edward Hyde. Where Jekyll is a handsome and respected man of science, Hyde is a surly and brutish misanthrope. Nevertheless, Jekyll has allowed Hyde free access to his home and laboratory and, surprisingly, made him the sole beneficiary of his will. Given the closeness of their bond, it see...

Kafka, Franz

Franz Kafka's bizarrely comedic meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation expressed through the story of a man who is transformed overnight into a giant beetle, now repackaged with a beautifully designed jacket by noted illustrator Malika Favre. Only yesterday, Gregor Samsa was a meek salesman, browbeaten by his unappreciative employer and depended on...

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Anne of Green Gables has been one of the world's most charming coming-of-age stories for more than a century.Best-selling Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery published the first book in her charming series in 1908, making it a literary favorite for more than a hundred years. Published as a children's novel, the story of Anne Shirley, an orphan, was inspired by the author's chi...

Kafka, Franz

Aquí descubrirás las obras maestras de uno de los autores más importantes de todos los tiempos. Franz Kafka no necesita presentación: cambió la historia de la literatura para siempre. Si solo fueras a leer a un escritor en tu vida, tendría que ser a él. Estos son sus textos más impactantes, los que han marcado a millones de lectores en todo el mundo. No es un libro más: es una ...

Kafka, Franz

Franz Kafka's bizarrely comedic meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation expressed through the story of a man who is transformed overnight into a giant beetle, now repackaged with a beautifully designed jacket by noted illustrator Malika Favre. Only yesterday, Gregor Samsa was a meek salesman, browbeaten by his unappreciative employer and depended on...

Kafka, Franz

Franz Kafka, uno de los mejores escritores de todos los tiempos, te empuja a un laberinto que distorsiona la realidad con la precisión de un relojero y la ironía de un visionario. Karl Rossmann, joven y desprevenido, es enviado a las vastas y desconcertantes tierras de América después de un escándalo familiar que cambia su destino de manera irrevocable. Desde el momento en que ...

Kafka, Franz

Franz Kafka quería reunir las narraciones La condena, El fogonero y La transformación en un único volumen, pero su editor no aceptó pese a que la cohesión temática aportaba otra perspectiva de lectura. Existe en estos textos, decía Kafka, «una relación manifiesta y aún más una secreta, a cuya expresión, mediante su reunión en un libro titulado, por ejemplo, Los hijos, no querrí...

Kafka, Franz

Reunir los cuentos de Franz Kafka (1883-1924) significa ofrecer en un solo volumen toda la ficción breve del autor, tanto la publicada en vida como todos los relatos dispersos que fueron publicados de manera póstuma, incluyendo La transformación, Un médico rural o Descripción de una lucha, su primer cuento escrito. Kafka es una de una de las mentes más singulares del siglo xx y...

Kafka, Franz

Original y bella colección de diez relatos escritos por Franz Kafka y reunidos en el presente volumen por su gran biógrafo Reiner Stach. Los protagonistas de estos cuentos fantásticos provienen del mundo animal. Son criaturas con una identidad no siempre inequívoca, que actúan de manera misteriosa, a menudo reflexionando con intensidad, hablando incluso como seres humanos, sin ...

Lee, Harper

'Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a Mockingbird.' Lawyer Atticus Finch gives this advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationalit...